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Polikarpov I-16 /
1. I-16 tip 10, Major General Ivan Lakeyev. June 1941.
2. I-16 type 24. Defense of Leningrad, 1941.
3. I-16 type 29. 156 IAP winter 1941-1942.
4. I-16 Type 10 (or Type 18),1940-41. This plane was used army ruler Shchen Shih Tsai against Uighur Muslim separatist rebels.
5. And 16 type 10. Unidentified Air Force unit of the Kuomintang. Presumably the end of 1939.
6. I-16 type 24. One of the four...
Junkers Ju-87 'Stuka' Part 2
1. Junkers Ju-87R-2, 6. St.G 1, 6G+KT, Mediterranean. Theatre, early 1941. Apart from the unusual emblem on the nose, this aircraft featured the normal 70/71/65 scheme with a white fuselage band centred on the Balkenkreuz.
2. Junkers Ju-87B-1,J9+AL of 1.(St.)/Tr.Gr.189, France, May 1940. RLM 70/71/65 finish. The type of exhaust stacks suggest that this machine is late production series.
3. J...
Polikarpov I-153 "Chaika" Part 2
1. I-153 Unit: JVS 3. Serial: 101. Vienna-Schwechat, 1942. The plane was used as an advanced fighter trainer.
2. I-153 Unit: Stab./Luftlandegeschwader 1. Serial: H4+MB.
3. I-153 Unit: 3/LeLv 6Serial: 6. Pilot - Kapteeni Per-Erik Ahonius, CO of 3/LeLv 6. Rompotti, USSR (now Russia), July 1942.
4. I-153 VH-12 was captured and flown by the FAF. The aircraft was lost when it crashed, due...
Polikarpov I-16. Los moscas atacan!
1. I-16 type 5. 4th A.Sq. Pilots Morales and Sarausa flew the plane. 1938. Coloring - standard. Engine jacket of the plane - black. On wings from above and from below - red strips.
2. I-16 type 5. Coloring standard. Engine jacket of the machine-black. On wings-red strips.
I-16 type 10. Coloring standard. Spinner of propeller - silvery. Consoles of wings - red.
3. I-16 type 10 of 2...
de Havilland Tiger Moth Part 1
1. de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth, N6919/26, probably of No 1 EFTS, RAF, 1940. Dark Earth/Dark Green upper surfaces with Light Earth/Light Green top of lower wings; Yellow undersides. Serial in Night, repeated below both lower wings. Blue/ Red national markings above top wings. Light blue 36 on engine cowling. Note 'Mustard Gas Warning Patch' above rear fuselage decking. Blue/ Red national mark...
de Havilland Tiger Moth Part 2
1. de Havilland D.H.82 Tiger Moth, MO-159, LeLv26, Finnish Air Force, 1943. (Olive Green) upper surfaces and (Very Light Grey) undersides. Undersides of wingtips and fuselage band in Yellow. Codes in black. National markings in six positions.
2. de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth, 12-HI-105/2-I-2, Brazilian Navy. Silver overall with red bands around engine cowling and rear fuselage. Red wheel hu...
Bell AH-1 Cobra Part 1
1. Bell AH-1W Super Cobra (209) Reg.: 165369. MSN: 26369. Code: SM-23 Location & Date.El Centro - NAF (NJK / KNJK) California, USA - February 19, 2015.
2. AH-1W Lot.I Super Cobra Unit: HMLA-169 Vipers, USMC. Serial: 140 (BuNo.162535).
3. AH-1W. Unit: USMC. Serial: 237. During Operation Desert Storm, this USMC AH-1W was armed with 70mm rockets and TOW missiles. Special engine inlet (liters prote...
Gloster Javelin FAW.9/9R Part-1
1. Javelin F(AW) Mk 1, XA 558, A No. 87 Squadron, 2nd Tactical Air Force, RAF Bruggen, West Germany. Standard scheme and
national markings, except for the fuselage roundel which has been reduced in size to fit within the unit's colour bar; note No.87's sword insignia on fin in red, outlined in white. Crashed near Bruggen on 5th June 1958 after both engines flamed out.
2. Javelin F(AW) Mk ...
Lockheed P-38 Lightning hark Mouth Part 4
1. Lockeed P-38, F-4C-1-LO, S/No. 4267119 The Florida Gator, flown by Lt. Edward W. Durst, 22th PRS, 7th PG, 8th AF, Mount Farm, 1944. PRU Blue overall with yellow-orange and white sharksmouth motif on engine cowlings. Code 119 in white. Name on nose is white with a thin yellow-orange outline, mission markings in white. Crew names in white in a black bordered box.
Wheel hubs are yel...
Gloster Gladiator Part 2
1. Gloster Gladiator Mk.l 2909, Nationalist Chinese Air Force, 1937.
2. Gloster Gladiator Mk.l 175, Latvian Air Force, 1937.
3. Gloster Gladiator J-8 F8, Royal Swedish Air Force, 1983.
4. Gloster Gladiator J-8A, Flygflottilj F19, Swedish Volunteer Force, Northern Finland, winter 1939-40.
5. Gloster Gladiator Mk.l G-704,Lithunian Air Force 1939. 'Silver' Scheme: Dark Green top surfaces of w...
Yakovlev Yak-9
1. Yak-9U - flown by Georgiy Baevski, Hero of the Soviet Union (19 personal victories). The 5th Guards Fighter Regiment (GIAP), Germany, March 1945.
2. Yak-9T - flown by Capitan Rene Challe. Normandie-Niemen Regiment of the 303rd Fighter Division (IAD). Eastern Front, February 1945 (according some sources this a/c was also spotted at Dubrovka airfield in June 1944). The portrait of Fury was mark of G C I II/...
Polikarpov I-16 1. I-16 tip 10, Major General Ivan Lakeyev. June 1941.
2. I-16 type 24. Defense of Leningrad, 1941.
3. I-16 type 29. 156 IAP winter 1941-1942.
4. I-16 Type 10 (or Type 18),1940-41. This plane was used army ruler Shchen Shih Tsai against Uighur Muslim separatist rebels.
5. And 16 type 10. Unidentified Air Force unit of the Kuomintang. Presumably the end of 1939.
6. I-16 type 24. One of the four ai...
Arado Ar-196
1. Ar.196A-? Nr. T3+IH Aircraft based on the battleship Bismarck.
2. Ar.196A-3 1./Bordflieger Staffel 196, T3+BL Heavy cruiser 'Prince Eugene'. May 1941
3. Ar.196A-3 (possibly A-5) BMW.132K. Aircraft used in the prewar years in the Frontier Forces of the USSR. Equipped with original engine BMW. 132K.
4. Ar 196 of SAGr. 126 took part in the battle with two MBR-2 1941.
5. Arado 196 A-3 probably of the ...
Fokker D.XXI
1. Fokker D.XXI, No. CF-6.
2. Fokker D.XXI Netherlands, Ja V.A. I in national markings post October 1939.
3. Fokker D.XXI Netherlands,Operational No.221, 1e Ja Va. Sq. Post -October 1939.
4. Fokker D.XXI (4rd series), Unit: LeLv 30. Serial: FR-157, Winter 1942. Insignia of running Red Army man on the board. White spots painted over camouflage. In this appearance aircraft was shot down im 1942.
5. ...
Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-7 & Fw-190A-8
1. Fw-190 A-7 Unit/Location: 5./JG 26, Cambrai-South/Belgium, March 1944. Code: White 5 Pilot: CO Walter Matoni. Air victories: 34 in WW II (14 vs. 4-engined bombers). Fate: Survived Merits: Knights Cross.
2. Fw-190 A-7/R2 Unit/Location: 2./JG 11, Rotenburg/Germany, March 1944. Code: Black 1 Pilot: CO Alwin Doppler. Air victories: 29 in WW II (25 vs. 4-engined bombers) . Fate: KIA, 01.01.1...
Douglas A-1 Skyraider Part 2
1. AD-1 VA-4B, U.S. Navy Serial: 408/F (BuNo.09192) CVB-42 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, circa 1948."CVB-42 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, circa 1949.
2. AD-3 "Hefty Betty" VA-923, U.S. Navy Serial: 504/D (BuNo.122737) CV-31 USS Bon Homme Richard, Korea, October 1951.
3. AD-4 VA-194, U.S. Navy Serial: 411/B (BuNo.123811) CV-45 USS Valley Forge, Korea, 1951.
4. AD-1 VA-64, U.S. Navy Serial: 417/C...
Bell AH-1 Cobra
1. AH-1W Lot.I Super Cobra Unit: HMLA-169 Vipers, USMC. Serial: 140 (BuNo.162535)
2. AH-1G Unit: "F" Troop, 4th Cavalry Regiment, US Army. Serial: 15012 Hue-Phu, August 1972. Note anti-Strela missile modifications, which 'hide' the exhaust gases which the heat seeking Strela homes on.
3. AH-1W Lot.II Super Cobra Unit: USMC. Serial: BuNo.162567 Modern Cobras are painted In a highly effective two-tone gray...
Vought F4U Corsair Salvador
1. FG-1D. Unit: Escuadrilla 2, Escuadron Caza Bombardeo, Fuerza Aerea Salvadorena. Serial: FAS-205. Circa 1965. The second batch of FG-1D's supplied to El Salvador wore a camouflage in dark blue. It remains unclear if this was the same 'mid-nite' as used on FAH Corsairs, or some other shade. The example depicted here, serialled '205', also had the FAS insignia applied behind the engine cowling. De...
Petlyakov Pe-2
1. Pe-2 "Leningrad-Kenigsberg". Unit: 34th GvBAP. Serial: 26. Crew commander is 1st.Lt.N.D.Panasov. Poland, August 1945.
2. Pe-2 (265th series). Unit: 125th GvBAP, 4th GvBAD. Serial: 95 (c/n.7/256). Crew commander: Gv.2nd Lt.Shelikova (woman).
Balbasovo airfield, early Summer 1944.
3. Pe-2. The crew of Lt.Ovsyannikov, photographed in August 1945 (probably at Far East Front), flew 107 missions with this ...
Gloster Javelin Mk.4 Part 3
1. Javelin F(AW) Mk.4, XA 756, '756', No. 141 Squadron, RAF Coltishall, 1957. Standard scheme and national markings; black/white fin markings with unit badge superimposed. Fuselage serial in black, with '756' repeated in white on fin.
2. Javelin F(AW) Mk4, XA 636, '636', No. 41 Squadron, RAF Coltishall, 1958. Standard scheme and national markings; black serial on engine nacelles, with the last ...
Gloster Javelin Mk.5, Mk.6, Mk.7. Part 4
1. Javelin F (AW) Mk 5, XA 654, No. 23 Squadron, 1958 (the only Mk 5 on the squadron). Standard scheme and national markings; white serial with blue/red/blue bars above. Unit badge on a white disc on fin.
2. Javelin F (AW) Mk.5, XA 710, 'Y', No. 151 Squadron, RAF Leuchars. Standard scheme and national markings; St Andrew's cross outlined in black, on fin. Serial in black and code i...
Focke-Wulf Fw-190 in Foreign Service Part 2
1. FW-190A-3a W.Nr 134116.
2. FW-190A-3a (25), thanks to its camouflage was one of (not less than of two) most distinguishable of all Focke-Wulfs received by Turkey. This was probably a machine delivered as part of re-stocking in August 1944. Otherwise, it would be hard to tell why
the plane has a camouflage used in 1942-1943 by JG 51 and JG 54 at the Eastern Front and overpa...
Messerschmitt Bf-10G-14 Late
1. Bf-109G-14 W.Nr 166155 (Mtt Reg.). Standard RLM 74/75/76 camouflage with large blotch of RLM 70 around the cockpit and small blotches of this colour (and RLM 74) on fuselage sides and vertical tail. This aircraft force landed during a test flight at Wolfring, near Regensburg, on 25 July 1944.
2. Bf-109G-14/U4 W.Nr 413598 (Erla), RAF VD358/EA-2. RAF camouflage of Dark Green and Medium Sea Gre...